Integrating blockchain and the internet of things in precision agriculture: Analysis, opportunities, and challenges

Torky, Mohamed; Hassanein, Aboul Ella

doi:10.1016/j.compag.2020.105476

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“…For instance, the prover (or miner) proves to the verifiers that the computational effort has been expended for some purpose (Proof-of-Work). Other consensus mechanisms, such as Proof of Authority (PoA) or Proof of Assignment (PoAss), can also be used (see [13] for a review).…”

Section: A Blockchainmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…• Cryptography: Strong encryption to allow decryption by authorized users only; • Ledger: A shared and distributed database to store data; • Consensus: A protocol to prevent minor nodes to modify transactions; • Smart Contract: Rules, penalties, and actions to be automatically applied to the involved parties once the condition is met. Main features and characteristics of blockchain include [3], [13], [14], [16]:…”

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User Interface of Blockchain-Based Agri-Food Traceability Applications: A Review

Tharatipyakul

Pongnumkul

2021

IEEE Access

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Blockchain technology is a secure distributed ledger for lists of transactions, which has immense potential to solve traditional agri-food supply chain issues. An increasing number of research on blockchain-based traceability applications aims to improve food quality and safety. Still, relatively few works considered user interfaces when developing and reporting their applications, which could lead to usability issues. This paper aims to address this gap by reviewing existing works from user interface perspectives. We gathered 25 review papers on blockchain or agri-food supply chain and 39 research papers that presented screenshots of user interfaces of related applications. We first reviewed 7 review papers that focused on the blockchain-based agri-food supply chain to understand the benefits and challenges in the blockchain applications. We then analyzed 14 blockchain-based agri-food traceability applications and 10 non-blockchain-based agri-food traceability applications. The analysis resulted in categorizations of 5 target user groups, 3 main approaches for collecting data, 5 main approaches for visualizing data, and a discussion of other aspects of user interfaces. However, we found insufficient details and discussions on the user interfaces and design decisions of the applications for further usability assessment. Additionally, user involvement for evaluation is lower in blockchain-based researches than in non-blockchain-based researches. This trend could lead to usability problems of blockchain applications, causing blockchain technology to be underutilized. Finally, we discussed research gaps and future research directions related to user interface design, which should be addressed to ease future blockchain adoption.

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User Interface of Blockchain-Based Agri-Food Traceability Applications: A Review

Tharatipyakul

Pongnumkul

2021

IEEE Access

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“…The potential of IoT is that information is automatically sent over the network, and embedded applications connected to the internet integrating great computing capabilities and using data analytics to extract meaningful information [22]- [23]. The IoT could help detect where bottlenecks may exist but other technologies may need to be combined, including blockchain which are more responsive to real-time events and can be used to measure volume and timing of supply chains [24]- [25].…”

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Systems Science: Digital Transformation andDeveloping Business Model toward Smart Farms’platform

Ibrahim

Elramly

Hassan

2021

International Journal of Circuits, Systems and Signal Processing

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This paper describes efforts by National Authority for Remote Sensing and Space Sciences (NARSS) to help the Egyptian government to manage and monitor the national projects. We successfully developed a geospatial data sharing portal (NARSSGeoPortal) as part of the government need to build national Decision Support System (DSS). We were able to solve the software development issues as well as the satellite imagery sourcing issues, but the main challenge remains around how to collect complete and correct data from the public about their private businesses nationwide. The most challenging is how to engage the public and encourage the business owners who are the main sources of data to provide the government Geoportal with data about their businesses. It is also challenging to engage the scientists and experts from government research centers into the data sharing Geoportal. Furthermore, it is a challenge to integrate the government research centers with the public businesses’ daily operation. The data sharing Geoportal is built for all national projects and government authorities, however, in this paper we focus on the Agriculture authorities and farming businesses where the challenge is how to collect correct and complete data per acre about the seeds, fertilizers, water, pest control and all other farm related data that the satellite imagery does not provide. The goal is to integrate the farms into unified national monitoring, and control system while developing advanced smart farms with the use of Internet of Things (IoT). The proposed collaboration agriculture platform fills the gap between two groups. The first group includes the government authorities, financial institutions, and research centers. The second group includes farmers, supply chain, and agriculture engineers. The platform show how employment can be generated by transforming the national ecosystem. The paper also fills a major gap in industry as well as in academia by providing the first Bluetooth Low Energy computer aided design tool that will facilitate testing, designing, deploying, managing and debugging of real Bluetooth Low Energy networks.

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“…Vol. 12 No.6 (2021), [2858][2859][2860][2861][2862][2863][2864][2865] strategies.Although there are many technological issues which need to be resolved in case of smart farming. For instance, due to the absence of mechanisms to exchange confidential agricultural data in some kind of a secured way, data sharing technology is insufficient [Hong (2020)].…”

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Secure Smart Green House Farming using Blockchain Technology

Chinnasamy¹

2021

TURCOMAT

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The evolving agricultural technologies used mostly for remote access and modernization in farming connected via the Internet of Things (IoT) have been grown rapidly. However because of the wide size of all its broadcaster's propagandizing existence, it has some significant concerns with respect to security and privacy. We utilize blockchain to address such security breaches, allowing the development of a decentralized distributed blockchain system that's also exchanged between the IoT cluster heads. This article's major focus is provide smart greenhouse farmlands with a portable blockchain-based infrastructure which offers integrity and confidentiality. Where, green-house IoT sensor nodes are function as a blockchain centrally controlled to optimize the energy consumption by utilizing secure immutable ledgers. Furthermore, we present a significant solution that integrates blockchain technology via IoT devices to offer Smart Greenhouse cultivation with an enhanced secure communication.

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Integrating blockchain and the internet of things in precision agriculture: Analysis, opportunities, and challenges

Cited by 256 publications

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User Interface of Blockchain-Based Agri-Food Traceability Applications: A Review

User Interface of Blockchain-Based Agri-Food Traceability Applications: A Review

Systems Science: Digital Transformation andDeveloping Business Model toward Smart Farms’platform

Secure Smart Green House Farming using Blockchain Technology

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